Lectures and lecturing

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This box contains a mixtue of personal and professional material and includes recordings of lectures, addresses, interviews, conferences and events as well as documents, back-ups of articles, photographs, and instructional or promotional material.

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Box summary

Boxes 46-54 contain lecture notes for courses from 100-level to 300 level taught by PTC at Massey University. Key topics are: group theory, quantum mechanics, polymers, thermodynamics, environmental physics, atoms, wave mechanics, soft condensed matter, thermal physics.

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Boxes 55-61 contain lecture notes for courses at 100-level and at 400-level taught by PTC at Victoria University of Wellington. Key topics are: Group theory, quantum mechanics, polymers, physics fundamentals.

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'Byron's pilgrimage from Byronism to burlesque': carbon typescript copy of a Macmillan Brown lecture 1955-1956, by Professor J. Y. T. Greig. Copied from original made available by author 1956.

Summary of contents A collection of material to be used towards LC’s guest lecture for ENGL 231 (2004, 2005, 2007, 2010) at Victoria University. Includes printed poetry, handwritten notes, typed script, correspondence and both the original and photocopies of the offer of casual employment. The lecture content is an analysis of the language, humour, sexism and racism that can be found in World War poetry and song. It also analyses the relationship between these forms of media with popular culture and their...

Summary of contents A collection of Hocken Library collection information, correspondence, donor receipts, conditions of copying/copyright and copying order forms. The material that LC proposes to be donated in the correspondence includes a series of American printed articles that are hard to source in New Zealand, along with audience research of early cinema. He also proposes lecturing in the Hocken Library’s seminar programme about his work on Military history and Soldier social behaviour. The correspondence...

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Contains an assignment sheet for a Massey University course entitled ‘Photographic History & Criticism 2: NZ Photographic Histories’. Instructs students to review, interview, examine and analyse their chosen photographer and their work. The assignment was handed out on 14/08/2002.

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Contains slide and lecture notes for a talk at Massey University on the history of photography, held on the 19/9/2002. The topic is primarily focused on social function and popular culture, with specific photographs being analysed as a resource.

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A collection of correspondence and reviews. The correspondence is primarily to do enlisting LC to review new publications from NZ Books, often includes handwritten notes from Harry Ricketts, praising LC’s reviews. Also includes one of LC’s reviews of ‘Scars on the Heart: Two Centuries of New Zealand at War’ and a contract for guest lecturing at Victoria University. The date range is 1995-2009.

Description

Black and white photograph of man giving lecture, with academics seated behind him.

Caption on rear: Professor Kirk delivering address to the public in main lecture room. (pohto from N.R.Laird)

Photographer probably N.R.Laird (b.1902)

Summary of contents A collection of ‘Friends of the Turnbull Library’ event information and newsletters, handwritten notes, typed manuscript, a copy of ‘the House of Popular Culture’ diagram, lecture information and slide content for LC’s presentation titled ‘I Protest!’, deposit/donation records and a series of correspondence between LC and various Turnbull Library stuff about his recent acquisitions. The collection demonstrates LC’s contributions to the Turnbull Library community in both material and...

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A series of correspondence between LC and Patricia Smith of the University of Pennsylvania Press. The correspondence begins with Smith’s interest in LC’s presentation for the American Folklore Society titled, ‘War Comics and Vietnam’, then goes on to discuss the potential publication of ‘Dark Laughter’ (of which as deemed unsuitable for that press). The date range is 1988-1991.

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Contains a newspaper clipping about a visit by The Very Rev. A.C.Watson, of Toorak Presbyterian Church, Melbourne, and the typescripts of three lectures delivered at First Presbyterian Church in Invercargill.

The context of the newspaper clipping suggests March 1956, but Lecture One referes to the centenary of the Southland Province which was not officially proclaimed until 1861, although petitioning began in 1857.